Sunday, January 18, 2009

I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of the President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Blackberry and PC in the back are displaying the same street view(somewhere outside Google's headquarter at Mountain View, CA). To enable this, you need to have some data plan(GPRS) with the service provider and download the app. to your blackberry, and also configure your APN to "cmnet"(not cmwap, but cmnet!) if China Mobile is providing the service, leave it blank if it's China Unicom. For a typical satellite image on blackberry, google maps would eat about 500kb to 1mb data flows. So large data plan is always better!

when roaming in mainland China, and you need to call back to Hong Kong or foreign countries with HK SIM card (most SIM cards issued in mainland China cannot make international calls), follow these steps:

Calls to Hong Kong:

dial *138* (Hong Kong phone number) #

Wait for a return call. Upon receiving the call, you will be connected to the number you have dialed.

Calls to other countries:

dial *138*001 (country code) (area code) (phone number) #

Wait for a return call. Upon receiving the call, you will be connected to the number you have dialed.

some 5 dollars will be charged per minute for the services no matter the recipient answers it or not.

another tip: try avoid receiving incoming calls when roaming, because the service charge is a total RIP-OFF. Answering incoming call in Shenzhen, 6.48 HKD/min; in cities of Guangdong other than Shenzhen, 7.78 HKD/min; in provinces other than Guangdong, 12.78 HKD/min